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Page A10 Pharos-Tribune, Logansport, Indiana, Sunday, May 10, World Briefs Compiled from Associated Press reports Sapre (L), Miss Universe second runner- a up gives Miss Universe 1992, Michelle McLean from htem bia kiss On the right is Miss Universe first runner-up, Paola Turbay, from Colombia. Miss Namibia Named Miss Universe BANGKOK, Thailand A 19-year-old model and part-time masseuse from the African nation of Namibia was named Miss Universe 00 'Tm'S'the lucky one. My fellow contestants are just as beautiful," Michelle McLean told reporters. Miss Colombia 2 1 -year-old university student Paola Turbay. was first runner-up and Miss tndia.

20-year-old model Madhushn Sapre. took third place. There were 78 contestants. McLean won $250,000 and a sports car. Asked if it was odd that a white woman should represent a nation with a predominantly black population, McLean said her country contest was open to all.

black and white. Peru Police Force Rebels To Surrender LIMA Peru Police blasted through the wall of a eel Iblock held by rebels and stormed inside, forcing the inmates' surrender after a day- Ions battle with guns and dynamite. There was word on casualties. Police said in the morning they would act to oust the rebels who had held the cellblock for four days. During the day, shouting, gunfire and strong explosions erupted inside Canto Grande prison, which houses or convicted of subversion.

In the final four-hour battle, police could be seen firing and throwing dynamite into the cell block from the roofs of buildings within the prison The rebels responded with gunfire and dynamite charges. Six powerful explosions rocked the crumbling cement block homes around the prison. Soldiers said a tactical police team charged through a hole in the cell block wall. Watts To South Central Los Angeles: 27 Years Have Shown Little Progress Editor's Note: After Watts exploded in riots in 1965, a special presidential panel offered solutions: jobs, education and housing. The Kernel- Commission also issued a warning: The nation was moving toward two societies, white and black, separate and unequal.

Twenty-seven years and another riot later, the words seem more prophetic than ever. By FRED BAYLES and DAVID FOSTER Associated Press Writers LOS ANGELES (AP) Jackie Hughes remembers the 1965 Watts riot through a 10-year-old's eyes: angry mobs, looters carting sofas from stores, soldiers standing guard in her neighborhood. Later, her father drove her around to see the wreckage. "I wasn't scared," she said. "My Daddy was there." Last week.

Watts' new scars looked sadly familiar, as troops again stood sentry by burned-out buildings. This time, Jackie was too busy to be scared. She was out of food, out of diapers, and there was no money in the house. She and her mother. Elsie Catch- inss, set out around the city in a road- weary Hyundai, hunting for a food- stamp outlet that had escaped looters.

For them, the riot was just one more obstacle in a life of obstacles, an acceleration of the treadmill run just to stay in place. As the women passed the charred rubble that only days before was an ice cream shop, it occurred to them that despite two decades of government programs and promises, not much had changed between riots. "They rebuild the buildings, not the people," Mrs. Catchings said. "All the jobs are gone.

The people are out of work, and the ones who are working get minimum wage. How can you take care of a family on that? People just don't see any hope." Great Society provided some hope There was hope in 1967 when President Johnson appointed the Kerner Commission to explain why Watts and other U.S. cities had erupted in flames. The root causes of poverty, ignorance and disprimination would be addressed, said Johnson, "because there is simply no other way to achieve a decent and orderly society in America." Solutions were proposed: better aid to families, programs for education, job training, housing and health. Once aimed with the right tools, poor blacks could earn their fair share.

"The Great Society programs were designed when the country believed the economy would grow forever," said Roger Wilkins, a commission member and former head of the NAACP. "It was thought the programs would be a bridge into the economy. But then the economy fell apart in 1973." With that, jobs began to disappear. In 1965. unemployment stood at 20 percent in Watts.

Today, nearly half are jobless in South Central Los Angeles. Urban manufacturing jobs, the anchor of black employment, began to vanish as early as the 1960s as factories closed, moved to the suburbs or out of the country, said John Kasarda. director of the University of North Carolina's Kenan Institute. Chicago lost 226.000 manufacturing jobs between 1967 and 1987. a decline of nearly two-thirds.

Detroit lost 107,400 jobs during those 20 years: New York saw 519.000 manufacturing jobs disappear. While old jobs tied the inner city, new jobs flourished in service and information industries. A new breed of city dweller, the yuppie, saw salaries soar. The gap between rich and poor. white and black, grew.

Blacks' advances have been halting The sad irony was that blacks had made some halting advances. The percentage of black males finishing high school rose from 54 percent to 72 percent between 1970 and 1988. The number of blacks enrolled in college increased, too. 15.7 percent to 18 percent. But college enrollment of high school graduates faltered, from nearly 29 percent in 1970 to 25 percent in 1988.

Elsie Catchings pulled up to a food-stamp outlet run by the Watts Labor Community Action Committee. The group rose from the ashes of the 1965 riot to bring jobs and social services to Watts. But last week, ashes ruled again. A National Guard soldier waved Mrs. Catchings and her daughter away from the ruins, and a sign directed them to another food-stamp outlet five miles away.

As Mrs. Catchings maneuvered through traffic, she described the struggle of keeping a family of six children and 13 grandchildren together in a world that seems bent on tearing it apart. At 62, she is a woman of soft edges and a rock-hard core, head of her clan since her husband died of a brain aneurism on Christmas Eve 1974. She clings to the idea that hard work pays off. but admits her life is no proof.

She earns less than $13 an hour after 23 years at the same nursing Still, it beats welfare, she said. "I don't like to be dependent on anybody. I like to take care of myself. That's what I've tried to teach my children." Only three of her six grown children are employed. Jackie had a job as a medical technician, but quit when she had her fourth child two months ago.

Jackie's husband, a construction worker, hasn't had work since last summer. The family subsists on $794 a month in county aid, plus $200 in food stamps. Mrs. Catchings' son, Anthony, was laid off last month from his job as a hospital maintenance worker. His wife took a job as a waitress, but that doesn't pay the bills for them and their four children.

'Quiet Riots' Fred Harris was another Kerner Commission member who was confident of solutions for the nation's cities. The former Oklahoma senator rattles off the initial achievements: funding for jobs, training, education, housing. There were summer jobs, training programs, the Job Corps. "We made progress in every category of race and poverty." he said. But federal aid to many of these programs has been on the decline since the late 1970s.

Housing programs are down by two-thirds. Job Training is half what it was in 1980. Today. Harris talks sadly about "quiet riots," of daily poverty, of the crime and the concentration of poor in inner-city neighborhoods. "Quiet riots are more destructive to human lives than the real riots, but they're less noticeable to outsiders," he said.

Painful statistics: Black life expectancy has declined since 1985, while increasing for whites. Blacks are more likely to be the victims of violent crimes. Black incarceration is climbing. In 1983. 37.5 percent of the nation's prison population was black: by 1989.

it was 41.7 percent. Soviet Victory Day Goes International U.S., Russian, Italian and German parade regiments filled Moscow's Red Square Saturday to help celebrate the 47th anniversary of Nazi Germany's surrender MOSCOW (AP) A rendition of "Stars and Stripes Forever" echoed off the Kremlin walls Saturday as former World War II allies and foes joined to celebrate the 47th anniversary of Nazi Germany's surrender. U.S.. Russian, Italian and German parade regiments filled Red Square where Soviet leaders had used past Victory Day events to glorify communism. "We citizens of Russia have many old holidays.

Some will come and some will go. But Victory Day will remain forever," Russian President Boris Yeltsin told about 1,000 people at the beginning of the day's festivities. Germany surrendered to the Soviet Union on May 8, 1945, and the following day was declared Victory Day. But this was the first year that two of the World War II victors joined together to mark the anniversary. "Stars and Stripes Forever" the John Philip Sousa march often heard on Independence Day reverberated off the granite walls of Vladimir Lenin's mausoleum.

A line of U.S. Medal of Honor winners stood nearby as the U.S. military band played. Bands from Italy and German pounded out their traditional military marches while their color guards displayed the countries' national flags on a warm afternoon. Two Russian military bands rounded out the celebration, once a day of reverence, pomp and propaganda for the Soviet Communist government.

Some of the war's fiercest battles were fought in Russia, and Nazi troops advanced to within a few miles of Moscow. Yeltsin laid a wreath Saturday at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the Kremlin, and later walked through crowds at Gorky Park, shaking hands and smiling broadly. at the Logansport Mall May 11 "The Secret Of Having More Fun In Life" 9-10 am by Doug Clapp, Activities Therapist, Emotional Care Center May 15 "Improving Communication" 7-8 pm by Jeff Clark, Program Manager of Emotional Care Center May 30 "Changing Roles of Parenthood" 10-11 am by Mark Brown, A.C.S.W., B.C.D. NSPORT LL US24E Logansport, IN In Celebration of NATIONAL NURSING HOME WEEK- Miller's Merry Manor "Leaders In Quality Care Are Honoring our Mothers Today 99 is a word that grows more I i precious with years. HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY! NATIONAL NURSING HOME WEEK May 10th- 16th The staff and residents of Miller's Merry Manor, invite you to stop by the facility and help us celebrate.

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